AIR Charter Service’s Brazil and Florida offices worked together to charter Antonov Airlines’ giant An-225 to carry the heaviest single piece of air cargo to be flown in the Americas. The huge transformer, which weighed in at 182 tonnes, was flown from São Paulo to Santiago de Chile. From there it[…]

Old cargo loading methods seem amateurish by comparison, as a new automated weight and balance system installed at the Qatar Airways Cargo Doha hub identifies some major commercial and flight safety benefits

A UPS freighter has crashed off the end of a Seoul Incheon Airport runway after an aborted take off in South Korea, writes Nigel Tomkins. The four-man crew survived the incident without injuries, using the port-side escape chute slide, say reports from the region. The cargo plane careered off the end[…]